Cotton tramper



W. D. WILSON COTTON TRAMPER Aug. 5 1924.

Filed Jan. 26 3:924 6 Sheets-Sheet 1 gn'umvfo'z F .12. p. Mam

Aug. 5 1924.

W. D. WILSON COTTON TRAMPER s Sheets-Shet 2 Filed Jan. 26 1924 3wuenr William D. Vlimn W. D. WILSON COTTON TRAMPER Aug. 5, 1924..

Filed Jan. 26 1924 6 Sheets-Sheet 3 gnbc'nfob M25 Wilson 1,594,195 w. D. WILSON COTTON TRAMPER Filed Jan. 26, 1924 6 Sheets-Sheet 4 Mlliam D, Wilson.

Aug. 5, 1924.

W. D. WILSON COTTON TRAMPER Filed Jan. 26 1924 6 Sheets-Sheet 5 Aug. 5 .1924. 1,504,195

W. D. WILSON COTTON TRAMPER Filed Jan. 26 1924 6 Sheets-5heet 6 Patented Aug. 5, 1924.

FF i E COTTON TRAJVIPER.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVIIJIJIAM D. IVILSON, a citizenof the United States, residing at Belzoni, in the county of Humphreys and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton Trampers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. i

This invention relates to an improvement in presses and more particularly to an im provements in cotton presses or trampers.

An object of the present invention is to provide a toggle mechanism of an improved and simplified structure.

A further object is to provide a cotton feeding mechanism adapted to be operated automatically by the tramper head and to feed the cotton positively in' the desired quantities for each stroke of the tamper head.

Further objects will more particularly ap-' pear in the course of the following detailed description. 7

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts as hereinafter'more particularly described and claimed.

Six sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof, in which like reference characters indicat like parts throughout.

7 Fig. 1 is aside elevation of the tramper head with its operating mechanism and the cotton feeding device.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation showing the cotton tramper head in its lowermost position.

Fig. 3 is a View similarto Fig. Zshowing the cotton tramper head in its uppermost position. p a p Fig. 4is a side elevation of the entire cotton tramper illustrating the general arrangement of parts.

. Fig. 5 is afrontelevation of an entire cotton tramperfillustratingthe general ar-' nangement of parts. p a

Fig. 6' is a detail side elevation, partly in section, illustrating the cotton feeding mechanism. t v

, Fig. 7 is a detail side elevation illustrating the lever"connections between the cotton feeding gates. I I

' Fig. 8 "s avdetailfront elevation taken Application filed January 26, 1924. Serial No. 688,746.

from the right of Fig. 6 with the tramper head removed.

Figs. 9 and 10 are plan views of the cotton feeding gates.

Fig. 11 is a vertical transverse section showing the arrangement of the cotton guide members.

Fig. 12 is a detail partly in cross section of the driving mechanism.

frame members 1-1 in association with vertical frame members 22. Referring to Fig. 1 the cotton tramper head 3 is connected with vertical members 4-4 adjacent each end, which are slidable vertically with relation to the frame members 11 and 2- 2, the head 3 being connected by two pairs of toggles 5-5 with a Vertically slidable driving head 7 as by link *members 66. The slidable driving head 7 is connected by arms 8 eccentrically pivoted to drive wheels 9 adapted to be driven (Fig. 12) by gear 10 operated by worm 11 mounted upon drive shaft 12 upon which is also mounted loose and fixed pulleys 1313 which maybe connected as by belt 14 to any suitable driving pulley 15., The belt 14 may be shifted as by belt shifter 16 operated by hand lever 17 By reason of the structure thus far dewhich is supported generally by horizontal scribed, it will be apparent that the rotabers 44 are associated with a back wall part '5 adapted to cooperate with the cotton feeding mechanism.

The cotton is fed to the device my means of an inclined chute 19 which empties adj acent the tramper head into a feeding box 20 having 'an open top and an open face directed toward the tramper head.

Positioned above box 20 are two cotton feeding gates 21 and 22, each of slat construction, and mounted upon pivotal shafts w I 23 and 24 respectively. These shafts 23 and 24 are arranged parallel and horizontal, shaft 24 of gate22 preferably-being slightly higher than shaft 23 of gate 21 Shaft 23 has secured thereto a lever 25 connected by link 26 with a lever 27 secured to a horizontal shaft 28. A pulley 29 is also secured to shaft 28 and has attached thereto -asat 30 a belt 31 which is passed over; a suitable guide roller 32 and turns over two parallel spaced horizontal rollers I 33 arranged one above the. other so as to provide a stretch 34 of belt 31 parallel with and slightly spaced from the back 5 of tramper head 3. Two outwardly directed lugs 35 are secured upon belt 31 adjacent this vertical stretch 34 directed forwardly and toward the tramper head 3 and upon the back 5 of the tramper head is secured an outwardly directed lug 18 adapted to coact with lugs 35 upon \the raising and lowering of the tramper head to shift belt 31, as is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. This shifting of belt 31 will operate to rotate pulley 29 a partial revolution, thus rocking lever 27 and in turn lever 25 to raise and lower successively gate 21 from a horizontal position, as illustrated in Fig. 1 to a vertical position, as illustrated in Fig. 6.

- To the opposite end of shaft 23 (seeFig. 7 is connected a lever 36 connected in turn by a link 37 ,with a lever 38 secured to shaft 24,;by reason of which structure it will be 1 apparent that when gate 21 is swung clowni wardly gate 22 will be simultaneously swung downward, thus constituting front and back closures for box 20, as is illustrated in Fig. 6. I

Guide rods 40 secured to a pivotal shaft at 43 are arranged at an inclination over box 20 to constitute a permanent guide to prevent cotton descending in chute 19 interfering with the gates 21 and 22 in their elevated position. Preferably the guide rods are pivotally connected to rods 42, which are in turn connected to a cross rodj j43 're .siliently supported as by springs 44-44. The rods 42 are passed through apertures in a guide rod 45 so as to properly position the rods 41. I

The lug 18 secured upon the back 5 of the .tramperihead 3 is so positioned with respect to lugs 35 upon belt 31 and the'latter lugs 35 are so positioned upon belt 31-with regatesf2l and 22 are lowered from their head 3 approaches the top of its stroke. Asflthe-gates 21 and,;22 are ,lowered: at this time, it ,,will be apparent that gate 21 will engagethe cotton containedin box 20 and will force the same beneath .tramper head 3 While at the same time gases will check flowmfgcott'on into box 20. As the an? tramper head 3.,descends on its last-downispectzto. pulley 29 that'as illustrated in Fig.

ward stroke, belt 31 will be again rotated and gates 21 and 22 raised, thus permitting the cotton to flow downwardlyinto box 20 where it will be retained by back wall 5 of the tramper head. It will thus appear that T the tramper head'3 operates through its back wall 5 as a reciprocating gate for the cotton feed box 20 in conjunction with the auxiliary gates 21 and 22. 7

Various modifications will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in:the art but within the scope of the present invention, as claimed.

Having thus fully described my invention Iclaim:

1. In a cotton tramper, acotton feed box, a tramper. head having a back adapted during a port-ion of the stroke of the; tramper headto close said cotton feed-box, pivoted gates adapted toclose the cotton feed box and means operated by the tramper head to. swing said pivoted gates during a portion of its stroke.

2. In a cotton tramper the combination of a cotton feed box having a discharge opening, a tramper head having a back adapted to close the outlet of the feed box, pivoted gates adapted to operate as closures for the cotton feed box and means operated by the cotton tramper head to swing said-' pivoted gates inwardly toward each other to clear the cotton feed box when the tramper head is on its downward stroke and to lower said gates when the cotton tramper head approaches the end of its upward stroke. I 1 3. In a cotton tramper having a recipro eating cotton tramper head, a cotton feed ing box having a discharge opening adapted to be closed by the cotton tramper ghead in its lowermost'p'ositions and ,to be opened by the elevation of the cotton tramper head to its uppermost position to dischargeullder the cotton tramper head, two pivotedgates positioned above the cotton feeding box and each adapted to swing inwardly from a vertical to a horizontal position and the converse, and means operated by the c'otton tramper head for swinging said gates from their horizontal positionsfto their vertical positions as the cotton tramper head :approaches the top of a stroke andfito swing said gates from their -;vertical;positions' to .their horizontal positions 7 as the -cotton tramper head commences its idownward I I stroke substantially as specified, i upper or horizontal. pos t on; asethe tramper .path of the tramper head, a lugcarried by .the tramper head adapted to engage said fingers on the belt and'means operated-"by the belt to transmit motionfto the gates. {no

5. The combination as specified in claim 1 in which the gate operating means includes an endless belt, having outwardly directed contact means, guide rollers over 5 which the belt passes parallel with the path of the tramper head, a pulley over which the belt passes, contact means carried by the tramper head adapted to coact with the contact means carried by the belt to actuate the latter, a crank arm operated by the pulley, a crank arm associated With one gate, a link connecting said crank arms, and link and lever means associating the two gates.

In testimony whereof I affix my signa ture.

WVILLIAM DORSETT WILSON. 

